I don't know about you, but we've been eating a lot of soup lately. I love making soup because it's warm, tasty and inexpensive. Inexpensive, that is, unless you're a cracker fanatic like I am. I could crush a whole sleeve into one bowl of soup. Seriously.
Bread bowls are a fancy, creative, filling and not-so-expensive replacement for crackers. If you can make bread, you can make bread bowls. I'll let you find your favorite recipe. Personally I like to use a no-knead bread dough because artisan bread comes out so nice and crusty.
How to Make Bread Bowls
1. Shape your bread dough as if you were going to make dinner rolls, but place them 3 inches apart so that the rolls will bake separately. This will give your bowls good, hard sides. If the rolls smoosh together while they are baking, the sides won't be sturdy enough to hold soup.
One of my first mistakes was making the bowls too big. The bowl you see in the photos is far too large. The size of a normal dinner roll should be perfect.
2. Cut the very top of the roll off, as if you were about to carve a pumpkin.
Bread bowls are a fancy, creative, filling and not-so-expensive replacement for crackers. If you can make bread, you can make bread bowls. I'll let you find your favorite recipe. Personally I like to use a no-knead bread dough because artisan bread comes out so nice and crusty.
How to Make Bread Bowls
1. Shape your bread dough as if you were going to make dinner rolls, but place them 3 inches apart so that the rolls will bake separately. This will give your bowls good, hard sides. If the rolls smoosh together while they are baking, the sides won't be sturdy enough to hold soup.
One of my first mistakes was making the bowls too big. The bowl you see in the photos is far too large. The size of a normal dinner roll should be perfect.
2. Cut the very top of the roll off, as if you were about to carve a pumpkin.
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3. Dig out the insides of the bread roll (again, as if you were carving a pumpkin!).
And there you have it! A bread bowl ready to be filled with soup. Though they will work with any soup, I've found that bread bowls are more helpful to thin, watery soups that need more substance. Not only does the bread enhance the soup, but the soup soaks into the dry bread and makes it taste SO good when the soup is gone.
Some Tips:
1. You can save the bread bowl insides. These can be used for croutons or bread crumbs in recipes. You can also put them back into the soup, like crackers.
2. Because there are only two of us, I like to make a big batch of bread bowls and then freeze all but two. Then whenever we have soup, I pull out two of the bowls and we eat them little by little that way.
Til next time,
-Bethany
1. You can save the bread bowl insides. These can be used for croutons or bread crumbs in recipes. You can also put them back into the soup, like crackers.
2. Because there are only two of us, I like to make a big batch of bread bowls and then freeze all but two. Then whenever we have soup, I pull out two of the bowls and we eat them little by little that way.
Til next time,
-Bethany
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